Studying whiteness can reveal agency to those caught in racial discourse

Evidence

Although it might actually be quite appropriate to take the view of the modern ethnographer investigating the primitive tribalism of whiteness, I make no apologies for borrowing Taylor’s insights on ethnographic work made in another context, nor am I suggesting that the whole of his argument fits here. My point is simply that the study of whiteness offers to every individual caught up in racial discourse against their will potentially new opportunities to make sense of self and other, and to recognize a degree of agency in challenging (and therefore changing) the many ways in which the beneficiaries of racial hierarchy are complicit with injustice. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 785

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